Who we are
Carelon Recovery
Centre
Carelon Recovery Centre is completely and legally registered as a Company Limited By Guarantee under the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) with registration Number: 80034386097126 on the Certificate of Registration, and also as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with registration number: CONR177767204NB on the Certificate of Registration and Incorporation under the Uganda National Bureau of NGOs in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Carelon Recovery Centre works to stimulate effective participation of people in rural and urban areas in designing and increasing opportunities for community development, improving the quality of life of people by supporting interventions that mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS and also responding to the needs of the poor. To accomplish our mission, Carelon Recovery Centre specializes in policy engagement for better policies and delivery of services to poor communities in both rural and urban settings.
We believe the most transformational, holistic, sustainable and long-term change occurs when one community partners with another. We are engaged in rehabilitating youth and other members of the community engaged in drug abuse and addiction, empowering impoverished people and their communities through relationships that cultivate holistic transformation and sustainability. Our unique community to community model connects communities with high vulnerability of people.
We effect positive, lasting change in the lives of vulnerable people around communities, taking the initiative of rehabilitating young people aged 15–24 years. The key aspects of the organization’s growth and development are based on the beneficiaries, the community, organization staff, well-wishers and the Local Government leaders.
- Legal statusCompany Limited By Guarantee
- Registered withURSB & National Bureau of NGOs
- Head officeNateete, Kampala – Uganda
- FocusYouth, families & communities
Our community in pictures
HIV Prevention issues
HIV Prevention issues in the fishing communities of Bugiri District
About Us
The values that shape our work
Our corporate values guide how we serve young people, families and communities every single day.
Integrity – We earn trust
We speak honestly and act ethically. Our character guides our daily work. We gain the confidence of others by doing the right thing.
Dignity – We respect others
We believe in others and see their potential. With the right support, all individuals can achieve their goals.
Community – We thrive together
We build great teams by leveraging individual strengths. We share, partner and collaborate with others in the name of mutual goals.
Resiliency – We overcome adversity
We embrace that our work is hard, and sometimes does not go as planned. We meet these challenges head on and constantly strive to better ourselves and our services.
Ingenuity – We prove ourselves
We are learners, innovators and original thinkers. We use our experience, imagination and wisdom to deliver tangible, positive outcomes.
Advocacy – We lead with purpose
We start the conversations that matter. We advance the dialogue on important issues and affect change for the better. If not us, then who?
What we set out to achieve
The objectives of the organization guide every programme, partnership and intervention we deliver.
- To improve the livelihoods of refugees through rehabilitating youth and other members of the community engaged in drug abuse and addiction, empowering impoverished people and their communities through relationships that cultivate holistic transformation and sustainability.
- To welcome and admit youth, middle aged persons and other persons suffering from mental and emotional impairment resulting from alcohol and illicit drug addiction, cannabis, heroin, cocaine, mirage and marijuana to get treated, rehabilitated, empowered and changed to bring hope to themselves and the community.
- To provide a centre for facilitating treatment and rehabilitation services to persons with mental and addictive illnesses as a result of abuse of alcohol, illicit drugs and psychoactive substances.
- To set up, provide, drill or avail water to disadvantaged communities and also raise awareness on drinking safe and clean water as well as good sanitation and hygiene.
- To initiate Income Generating Projects from which disadvantaged people can be assisted to obtain daily essential commodities like access to medicine.
- To identify HIV/AIDS Prevention as a priority in setting a target of reduction through awareness, knowledge and stimulating demand for HIV Prevention.
Our programme areas
Carelon Recovery Centre strives to address a diversity of issues within the context of improving community livelihoods – from drug abuse prevention and mental health rehabilitation to HIV/AIDS, water and sanitation, sexual and reproductive health rights and youth empowerment.
Young people and children supported by Carelon Recovery Centre singing and rehearsing in our coverage areas.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Livelihoods
Many orphans and vulnerable children are living with guardians who can hardly meet their basic requirements, while others are surviving in child headed families. Orphans and vulnerable children are denied most of the basic requirements.
The causes of these conditions are several, including:
- The low priority given to their education;
- The heavy domestic workload at home;
- Caring for the sick, especially parents who are infected by HIV/AIDS;
- Lack of proper parenting and lack of financial support;
- Lack of parental care and career guidance;
- Lack of self-interest as well as disintegration of family values and morals.
Empowering the neediest orphans and vulnerable children is therefore very necessary for an improved quality of life. As Carelon Recovery Centre, we always look forward to communities that respect and value OVC, that listen to their views, hopes and dreams, and where all OVC have hope and opportunity.
These are orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) left by their parents due to HIV/AIDS in our coverage areas.
HIV/AIDS Education and Awareness
Carelon Recovery Centre’s HIV/AIDS prevention strategy among communities in Uganda focuses on eliminating mother-to-child transmission, targeting adolescent girls, and strengthening political leadership to create an enabling environment to implement programmes at scale towards the target of fewer than 200,000 new HIV infections annually by 2030.
Adolescent girls and young women are more vulnerable to HIV infection because their reproductive systems are not fully developed. Gender inequality and patriarchal norms also make it difficult for girls and young women to negotiate safe sex. Turning the tide against AIDS requires a more concentrated focus on adolescents and young people, ensuring that people in need of prevention have access to the right packages and prevention options of their choice through trusted access platforms.
Carelon Recovery Centre therefore has a unique comparative advantage to help communities tackle the challenge of HIV/AIDS prevention and care among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) through integrated models like HIV/AIDS education and awareness campaigns.
A medical outreach at Health Centre III in our coverage areas.
Mental Health Improvement
Carelon Recovery Centre proudly serves members of the community by specializing in mental and emotional well-being and recovery. We make this vision a reality through recovery-focused programmes and effective partnerships with our clients and providers. We are a mission-driven organization with a focus on behaviour health, and our mission is to help people live their lives to the fullest potential.
Putting people at the centre, our behaviour health system is built on a strong support structure of doctors, nurses, therapists, advocates and mentors fulfilling members’ behavioural, physical and social health needs. Our mental health strategy focuses on strengthening leadership, integrating mental health into community-based care and primary health settings, and implementing promotion and prevention strategies.
The overall purpose of our mental health programme is to decrease the stigma and negative attitudes towards mental health in communities across Uganda through training, awareness campaigns and subsequent treatment for the youth.
Some of the children and young people collecting water from the protected spring in our coverage areas.
Members of the community in our coverage areas access clean and safe drinking water.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
To increase access to sustainable and clean water supply, improved sanitation and adoption of appropriate hygiene behaviour change practices among children and their communities.
Safe water, improved sanitation facilities and knowledge of safe hygiene practices lead to improved health, better education, secure food sources, improved rights for women, income generation and greater prosperity. It completely transforms lives. Water is the beginning of the journey out of poverty, which leads to better health, increased prospects and brighter futures. We believe everyone, everywhere, should have access to clean water as a basic right.
We want to see communities where everyone has clean water and adequate sanitation, and the increased health and prosperity this brings. Carelon Recovery Centre ensures that people have access to clean and safe water and live in a clean environment for better lives.
Participants listening to the training facilitator sensitizing them on Sexual and Gender Based Violence Prevention.
Sexual and Gender Based Violence Prevention
Carelon Recovery Centre’s strategy to prevent Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) focuses on a multi-faceted approach that includes empowering youth, particularly girls, to lead change, challenging harmful social norms, and advocating for strong policies at all levels.
Key components of this strategy involve investing in youth-led responses, ensuring girls stay in school, promoting women’s economic independence and increasing women’s participation in decision-making, creating safe spaces for girls’ and young women’s leadership and participation, and supporting comprehensive SGBV services, especially in crisis situations.
A training facilitator sensitizing community members on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) in our coverage areas.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR)
Carelon Recovery Centre’s work on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) focuses on ensuring all children, adolescents and young people have the right to make free and informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health, free from discrimination, violence and coercion.
This is achieved through providing comprehensive sexuality education, challenging harmful social norms that prevent girls and young women from exercising their rights, and actively involving youth in all aspects of SRHR programme design. The programme focuses its interventions on:
- Knowledge development focusing on the unfinished agenda of SRHR in Uganda and policy dialogue;
- Scaling up successful models of services that are appropriate for young women’s SRH needs and rights;
- Championing and availing SRHR information to young women and adolescent girls to help them understand their sexuality and protect them from unwanted pregnancies, HIV/AIDS and STIs.
Entrepreneurship Skills Development
Entrepreneurship skills development involves building a combination of hard and soft skills necessary for creating and managing a successful business. Key areas include strategic thinking, financial management, leadership, marketing and resilience, which can be developed through formal training, mentorship and hands-on experience.
Carelon Recovery Centre’s strategy for entrepreneurship skills development is a key component of its Skills and Opportunities for Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship programme. The strategy focuses on equipping marginalized young people, especially young women, with the necessary skills and support to engage in decent work, whether through waged employment or self-employment.
The Programme Coordinator speaking to members on issues of venturing into enterprise development for self-sustainability.
Self-reliance and Development
Carelon Recovery Centre’s strategy focuses on empowering local actors and integrating vulnerable populations, such as refugees and host communities, into local economies and national service systems, thereby reducing dependency and building a foundation for self-sufficiency and long-term peace and stability.
We aim at helping communities build the capacity to withstand crises, manage their own development pathways and sustain progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) without long-term dependency on others for support. The organization’s approach emphasizes community ownership, resilience-building and sustainable, inclusive growth.
Youth to Youth Programme
This programme aims at curbing the epidemic in a youth friendly manner, targeting improved knowledge, attitudes and skills among the youth. It is conducted in partnership with other organizations carrying out similar activities through established youth clubs.
Young people must have the opportunity to lead change within their own communities. We seek ways to enable vulnerable children to understand and defend their rights. Across communities, girls suffer injustices every day simply because they are young and female, so we aim to help the girls’ rights movement grow from grassroots to national level so that girls can have greater control in their lives. We also encourage boys and young men to respect girls and women and empower them to become allies to the general community.
Rural and urban communities across Uganda
Our secretariat is based at the head office in Nateete, Kampala, from where we coordinate programmes that reach both urban and rural communities.
Kampala – Head office
Zone Seven, Lungujja Parish, Rubaga Division, Kampala. Coordination, counselling, rehabilitation support and administration.
Rural communities
Community outreach, awareness campaigns and rehabilitation support reaching rural and hard to reach communities, including fishing communities.
Urban and peri-urban areas
Youth clubs, schools, health centres and adolescent friendly clinics where young people access information, treatment and support.
Organizational capacity and governance
Organizational capacity
Carelon Recovery Centre’s programmes are under the leadership of vibrant people. In many ways, all the staff members including honorary members have continued to be a driving force for the organization, creatively developing ideas to deliver on the objectives of Carelon Recovery Centre and implementing the organization’s activities.
The implementation of the organization’s activities is a dynamic culmination of much planning, many discussions, debates and decision-making. Carelon Recovery Centre applies a multi-sectoral approach in its staffing, where each individual staff compliments the other to achieve the organization’s objectives.
The organization has made a comprehensive review of the environment, an assessment of the strategic situation and assumptions about the future, and has since come up with a new strategic dimension for the future – achieving financial success and sustainability through change of attitude, moral practices and values.
Strengthening organizational sustainability
We enhance our sustainability by building the capacity of the Board, Management and all staff to fulfill their respective roles and responsibilities, and by raising awareness about the health roles and socio-economic benefits of health services.
The objectives of strengthening organizational sustainability:
- To build staff capacity for improved management, innovativeness and development;
- To strengthen Carelon Recovery Centre’s brand value and increase public awareness about the importance of health, training, advocacy and socio-economic development;
- To promote innovations in health services, advocacy and socio-economic development;
- To expand and diversify Carelon Recovery Centre’s resource base.
The secretariat
Carelon Recovery Centre has a secretariat which is located at the head office of the organization. The roles and functions of the secretariat are:
- To provide the oversight role to the operation of the organization;
- To provide the strategic direction of the organization;
- To undertake day to day running and administration of matters of the organization;
- To engage in resource mobilization for the organization;
- To play the public relations function.
Carelon Recovery Centre
- AddressZone Seven, Lungujja Parish, Rubaga Division, Kampala – Uganda
- Postal addressP.O. BOX 500178, Nateete – Uganda
- Phone+256 707 938 143
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